The colt, from the first crop of Pioneerof the Nile, established his credentials with a victory in the Grade 2 Nashua S. Nov. 3 at Aqueduct, and is now 3-1-0 in four starts, earning $512,000. His lone loss was by just a nose in the Grade 2 Remsen S., also at Aqueduct.

The Free Handicap, published annually since 1935, is a weight-based assessment of the previous year’s leading 2-year-olds.